Groundbreaking site promoting Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s new album ROME, an interactive 3d music video. This is the future of immersive web technologies, lately several sites have used WebGL to power 3d web based experiences – so far this is the best and most creative use I have seen. Directed by the talented Chris Milk, who previously also worked on the ‘The Wilderness Downtown’ project, amongst others. In joint conjunction with Google to also promote the Chrome browser – it works best in Chrome – sadly not at all in some browsers.
Mixing drawn scenes, video, music and 3d elements – it is one of the most immersive cinematic sites I have ever seen. You control your perspective in each scene, viewing through the eyes of the main character. In several scenes such as driving through the crumbling city, where you point your mouse 3d animated objects come flying out of the walls. It is not just the execution but the entire idea and the scenes, music, everything really – it is quite beautifully realised. There is even a section where you can add your own created objects into one of the scenes, so it is constantly evolving – the detail and thought into this all is truly staggering.
It reminds me of the days of the internet when people were making sites for the sheer interactive experience of it all, to push the boundaries and try new things that have yet to be seen. In some ways it reminds me of the also groundbreaking site of the film, ‘Requiem for a Dream’. This is truly inspiring unforgettable experience, coupled with fast, smooth, ground breaking technology this is a landmark website.
Crafted by Google Creative Lab, Chris Milk, North Kingdon, radical.media, and Mirada.